PlayOn Videos fail to convert

[andi (Andrea Boltz)]

Previously I was able to use MCEBuddy to convert PlayOn Cloud videos with no issue. I could trim the ends, and use the markers they embedded to edit out any commercials. Unfortunately, when I went to do a recent batch of videos, I get nothing. It outputs no file and there seems to be an error with FFMpeg but I don’t know how to fix it. In this case, I was simply trying to trim the ends off using MP4 (Unprocessed) without even removing any commercials. The videos play fine in Channels and in Quicktime so the files themselves are otherwise fine. I’m not sure what to do. Any advice?

Here’s a log of one of the videos that didn’t convert.

[Goose]

It’s a bug with the latest PlayOn software update. See this topic for more details and workarounds

Start Trim not to Keyframe, causing "no video" on output

Thanks for the logs and sample files. It appears that the MP4 file being produced by the latest version of PlayOn isn’t compliant with the specs and has errors which is throwing ffmpeg off when it tries to remux it from MP4 to TS for processing the file AND while trying to trim the start. During this process it’s losing some critical metadata about the video stream so it can’t be played back. The short term solution is to enable the option to enable the option Skip remuxing files in the Convers…